Abstract

NATO's Afghanistan Country Stability Picture Portal
Track: Defense and Intelligence
Author(s): Ana Pinheiro, Jose Balsinhas

The Afghanistan Country Stability Picture (ACSP) is a geographic database - created and maintained by NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) - of over 70,000 reconstruction and development projects across Afghanistan. It holds information about different Afghan National Development Strategy sectors such as Education, Good Governance, Health, Agriculture and Rural Development, Infrastructure and Natural Resources, Private Sector Development, Security, and Social Protection. The data held in the ACSP comes from multiple sources: Government of Afghanistan (GOA), Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRT), International and Non Governmental Organizations (NGO).

This paper describes the ACSP GeoSpatial Web Site, which was developed and published on the Internet by the NC3A Geo-Team in early 2007. The portal is used by NATO, NGOs and GOAs for optimization and monitoring of reconstruction efforts and is updated at three-month intervals. The Web site is an easy and effective tool for consulting and querying the ACSP database on the Internet.

Ana Pinheiro
NC3A
P.O. Box 174
The Hague , The Hague 2501 CD
Netherlands
Phone: 0031703743513
E-mail: ana.pinheiro@nc3a.nato.int

Jose Balsinhas
NC3A
Oude Waalsdorperweg
The Hague , The Hague 2597 AK
Netherlands
Phone: 003170374
Fax: 0031703743049
E-mail: jose.balsinhas@nc3a.nato.int